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Starting up a plain socket-based service

I am trying to write a 'decorator' for an ancient C/plain-sockets-based Unix application.

Think of the decorator as a filter/proxy that also munges incoming/outgoing data.

The question is: how to do this in spring.

I can't see any of the available remoting strategies being useful for this situation (maybe my lack of understanding): all seems to rely on serialization and be invokable via URL, wheras I have to talk to a plain address/port and have to send a plain-text command string: